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• • • CITY OF LINO LAKES Resolution No. 47 - 87 A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL TO CONDUCT A METROPOLITAN SIGNIFICANCE REVIEW OF THE PROPOSED PHEASANT RIDGE MUSIC CENTER WHEREAS, the Northstar Financial Corporation is proposing an outdoor ampitheater (Pheasant Ridge Music Center) on a 97 acre parcel of land located in the eastern part of the city of Blaine; and WHEREAS, the ampitheater, according to Environmental Quality Board rules, requires a mandatory Environmental Assessment Worksheet as it includes more than 1,000 parking spaces and as it is converting more than 80 acres of naturally vegetated land into developed property; and WHEREAS, Metropolitan Council review of the Environmental Assessment Worksheet stated, The proposed improvements impact a metropolitan facility. That impact is at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and I -35W, where a widened Lexington Avenue and a widened off ramp from the south are needed to handle the music center traffic. "; and WHEREAS, the city of Lino Lakes has taken the opportunity to review the Environ- mental Assessment Worksheet prepared for the ampitheater in accordance with Minnesota Statutes section 116D.04 Subd. 5a; and WHEREAS, it has been determined from the EAW review that noice from the ampitheater would be audible in residential neighborhoods in the city of Lino Lakes; WHEREAS, Minnesota Statutes section 473.173 requires the Metropolitan Council to adopt and put into effect rules establishing standards, guidelines and procedures for determining whether any proposed matter is of metro- politan significance; and WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council adopted rules chapter 5700 "Metropolitan Council Matters of Metropolitan Significance" under the Administrative Procedures Act defining issues of metropolitan significance to include facilities that will generate "... 10,000 or more vehicle trips per day or 1,000 or more vehicle trips in any one hour and a substantial effect on a metro- politan transportation facility ... "; and WHEREAS, the adopted rules for determining Metropolitan Significance also include "Local Governmental, Unit Effect and in particular state "(Metropolitan significance exists) when a substantial effect on existing or planned land use or development within a local government unit other than the situs governmental unit (is apparent). ", and